Now this is pretty swell. Google is hosting the Life Magazine photo archives for all to see. Do a search for Idyllwild and you get a series of Alfred Eisenstaedt (!) shots from 1959 (!!) taken in and around the former Isomata (which you may know as Idyllwild Arts) including this one of Ansel Adams (!!!).
I have two favorites though. First this one that must be shot on the shores of Lake Hemet (does anybody know for sure?).
But this one may be the best of the bunch (as far as I’m concerned). After all, it’s what we do in the mountains, isn’t it? We drag out the typewriter, and have a smoke while reading a book in the weed patch surrounding the cabin. What, as they say, could possibly go wrong?
Oh, right…
But anyway, click on either of the photos here to go back to the archive. Do it when you have a lot of time to spare though. It’s real easy to lose a day spelunking around in there.
– bob
(Thanks, Daring Fireball!)